Ramirez 1a, 10 string guitar (1979)

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;Brand: Ramirez
;String Configuration: 10 String
;Model: 1A, 10 STRING
;Model Year: 1979
;Series: 13973
;Country/Region of Manufacture: Spain
;Body Type: CLASICAL, ACOUSTIC
;Dexterity: Right-Handed
;Size: FULL SIZE

Ramirez 1a, 10 string guitar (1979)

The 10 String Guitar

The obsession with enriching the sound of the guitar led José III to the study of the viola d’amore, an obsolete instrument of the Seventeenth Century. The viola d’amore was a kind of alto violin that was played on the shoulder with a bow, furnished with 7 melodic gut strings and 7 sympathetic strings in brass or steel, the latter usually tuned in unison with each principal string, and passing under the tailpiece and thence through the bridge. This instrument reached its apogee in the 18th century, thanks to the works of composers such as the Bohemian Karl Stamitz, child of the creative Jan Vaclav Stamitz of the orchestral period of Mozart and Beethoven. The instrument has a clear sonority, with a strong, harmonious, silvery voice, exactly what José III was looking for in his own guitars. The idea of applying this viola d’amore system to the guitar involved the overcoming of various difficulties that José resolved with the use of two bridges, one above and one under the table, through which latter bridge six sympathetic strings ran, continuing through the hollow neck. So was born a 12-string guitar. Segovia tried the first prototype; he praised its sound, but at the same time he discovered an intrinsic drawback: the impossibility of controlling the duration of the sounds of the inside strings. Segovia had made it clear that he had little interest in guitar construction, so José Pepe sought the input of Narciso Yepes in solving this complex problem. But rather than tamper with the existing internal strings, Yepes suggested to José that he set the sympathetic strings externally instead, such that they could be damped with the right hand. Thus came about the ten-stringed Ramirez guitar. In a private meeting, Yepes attempted to play the new prototype, encountering much difficulty. At the end he commented only: “In what a marvelous mess have I embarked!” Yet it seems that after only five days he was able to play it in a concert in Barcelona. The 10-string guitar possesses a notable increase of sonority in comparison with the traditional model, but the imaginative José Pepe is still striving for the inaccessible magic of a totally “simpathetic” guitar.

Jose Ramirez III 1A concert (10-string 1974)

Top: Soundboard: cedar
Back / Sides: rosewood

Neck / Head: Cedar of Honduras, reinforced with ebony.

Tuners: Fusteros, engraved

Strings: Hannabach 815/10 ZMT Medium tension

Scale: 664 mm

Golpa on the treble site.

Fingerboard : Ebony 82-98 mm

Bridge and headplate: rosewood

Polish: French  Shellac
Sound: Well-balanced, big, clear, bold, romanti

Condition: Excellent

Price: 7500 euro’s or best offer

Ramirez 1a, 10 string guitar (1979)

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